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FILE – Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche speaks during an event with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House, Oct. 15, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/John McDonnell, file)

Top Trump administration official defends partial release of Epstein files as Democrats cry foul

December 21, 2025 at 1:42 p.m.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche on Sunday defended the Justice Department’s decision to release just a fraction of the Jeffrey Epstein files by the congressionally mandated deadline as necessary to...

President Donald Trump walks to speak with reporters while departing the White House as chief of staff Susie Wiles, right, looks on, Friday, Dec. 19, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

US forces stop oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela as Donald Trump follows up on promise to seize tankers

December 20, 2025 at 7:07 p.m.

U.S. forces on Saturday stopped a second merchant vessel off the coast of Venezuela in international waters, two American officials told The Associated Press.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth salutes during a casualty return for Iowa National Guard soldiers Sgt. William Nathaniel Howard, 29, of Marshalltown, Iowa, and Sgt. Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar, 25, of Des Moines, Iowa, and civilian interpreter Ayad Mansoor Sakat, who were killed in Syria, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

US military launches strikes in Syria targeting Islamic State fighters after American deaths

December 19, 2025 at 7:14 p.m.

The Trump administration launched military strikes Friday in Syria to “eliminate” Islamic State group fighters and weapons sites in retaliation for an ambush attack that killed two U.S. troops and...

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrives at the Bellevue Palace for talks with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Dec. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

US officials say Washington has agreed to give Ukraine security guarantees in peace talks

December 15, 2025 at 6:23 p.m.

The U.S. has agreed to provide unspecified security guarantees to Ukraine as part of a peace deal to end Russia’s nearly four-year war, and more talks are likely this weekend,...

President Donald Trump speaks during a roundtable in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

President Donald Trump says the US has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela

December 10, 2025 at 3:55 p.m.

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the United States has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela as tensions mount with the government of President Nicolás Maduro.

U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff, foreground, and Jared Kushner, U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, attend the talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Senate Palace of the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. (Alexander Kazakov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

US, Ukraine officials say they’ll meet for 3rd day after progress on creating a security framework

December 5, 2025 at 5:28 p.m.

President Donald Trump’s advisers and Ukrainian officials said Friday they’ll meet for a third day of talks after making progress on creating a security framework for postwar Ukraine and are...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio talks to the press at the U.S. Mission to International Organizations in Geneva, Switzerland, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)

Marco Rubio says US-Ukraine talks on Russia war were productive but much work remains in search of a deal

November 30, 2025 at 2:17 p.m.

U.S. and Ukrainian officials completed roughly four hours of talks Sunday aimed at finding an endgame to the war between Russia and Ukraine.

People watch as emergency services personnel work to extinguish a fire following a Russian attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Dan Bashakov)

Trump says he’s sending his envoys to see Putin and Ukrainians after fine-tuning plan to end war

November 25, 2025 at 5:50 p.m.

President Donald Trump said Tuesday his plan to end the war in Ukraine has been “fine-tuned” and he’s sending envoy Steve Witkoff to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin and...

European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas speaks to media as she arrives for a EU general affairs meeting at the European Council building in Brussels, Thursday, Nov.20, 2025. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

US and Russia draft peace plan for Ukraine that includes big concessions from Kyiv

November 20, 2025 at 4:20 p.m.

The U.S. and Russia have drawn up a plan aimed at ending the war in Ukraine that calls for major concessions from Kyiv.

President Donald Trump meets Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump dismisses US intelligence that Saudi prince was likely aware of 2018 killing of journalist Khashoggi

November 18, 2025 at 3:55 p.m.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday dismissed U.S. intelligence findings that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman likely had some culpability in the 2018 killing of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

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